Privacy first — your token never leaves your browser
Server-side scraping of DMs is impossible because Discord requires session context. The exporter runs as a browser extension that authenticates with your already-logged-in Discord and pulls messages directly from Discord's API to your machine. Your auth token is never transmitted to ExportComments. No backend involvement, no data egress.
Common workflows
- Personal-history archive — back up multi-year conversations before deleting an account, switching platforms, or migrating to a new Discord.
- Group-DM moderation — capture problematic chat as evidence for a moderation report;
permalink+ timestamps make it admissible. - Co-founder / team archive — early-stage startups often have key product decisions in DMs; export periodically for institutional memory.
- Search outside Discord — Discord's search is famously slow and feature-limited; full text in Excel/JSON enables grep, regex, and ChatGPT analysis.
Plan limits
Per-conversation size scales with your plan. Free (no signup): up to 100 messages per conversation. Personal: 5,000. Premium: 50,000. Business: 250,000 — see pricing for the full feature comparison and API tiers for the API-specific limits.